GMB support International Workers Memorial Day 2019

“We passionately believe that no organisation should put the health and safety of its workforce (or the community) at risk” says GMB London

GMB, the general workers’ union, will be commemorating International Workers Memorial Day at a number of events around London and the East of England. This year’s event in Milton Keynes is being organised by GMB London Region.

International Workers Memorial Day on Sunday 28th April is to remember the workers killed or injured at work and to step up efforts to prevent others being killed or injured in the future.

The day is also a way to commemorate workers all around the world, such as the those that died in the Amritsar Massacre, which had its 100th anniversary on 13 April 2019. This was when British Empire troops fired into a crowd of Indian workers who were on their lunch break gathered on a peaceful protest.

2019 also marks the 35th year of the Bhopal disaster where more than 8,000 workers are believed to have died as a result of the gas release (half at the time, half since), and more than 500,000 have suffered illness as a result.

GMB London Region will be raising awareness of both these tragedies with motions at this year’s GMB Congress.

Details of events in London and East of England are:

Saturday 27 April

12.00 PM

Rainham Library
Celtic Farm Rd
Rainham
RM13 9GP

A stone memorial will be placed on the green opposite Rainham Library on at. Refreshments available in the library after the commemoration.